Kate Pullen

It’s olive harvest time of year and the trees are getting stripped. The olive groves are full of people either hitting trees with sticks – or shaking them with branch shaking machines, which are the sort of size of strimmers,…

My least favourite celebration has just started which is the night time drummers who walk round the village for two hours, starting at about 4.30. There are some excellent traditions – and some that should be left to die out…

Here is millie coming back from her morning walk, she is in her special Millie bag. Ian is noe known as the dog wearer.

Just finished an adventure playground for Gary and Barry! That will keep them busy for a while, plenty for them to chew and nibble!

We celebrated the extra hour this morning by going out for a walk, first time for a while as it still gets hot in the afternoon, but it’s dark until so late in the morning. We took Tinkerbelle, Pixie and…

Sounds familiar? Tinkerbelle went back for a checkup and she’s got tablets to take for another week, but I have a horrible feeling that now she is becoming fussy with her eating. She’s never been a big eater, always convinced…

Ian has been suffering from the shingles for the past week or so. He actually spent the afternoon of his birthday at the hospital as the pain was so bad, and at that time the rash hadn’t really started so…

Tinkerbelle wasn’t eating well so we took her to the vet. She had a tooth infection and had to have her teeth cleaned and a tooth remove. She had to stay in over night as they also found that she…

We celebrate Ian’s birthday by scrumping figs. I guess we could say we foraged for them, except for the fact we are in someone’s olive grove. BUT we do know that they don’t pick the figs so we don’t feel…